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Strong; sinewy. "His nervy knees." Keats.

ly reddish chestnut, the cheeks are yellowish white, and the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with purplish black and cream color.

n by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.

The kneepan; the cap of the knee.

Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.

Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space.

A kneeling desk for prayers.

An old term for litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling. Shipley. Procession of the Holy Ghost, a theological term applied to the relation of the Holy Spirit to the Father and the Son, the Eastern Church affirming that the Spirit proceeds from the Father only, and the Western Church that the Spirit proc…

humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship. A greater prostration of reason than of body. Shak.

The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.

An involuntary movement produced by reflex action. Patellar reflex. See Knee jerk, under Knee.

To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax. His knees relax with toil. Pope.

A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century. [Written also roquelo.]

The patella, or kneepan.

Of or pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan.

llenders.] On the inside of the hock, or a little below it, as well as at the bend of the knee, there is occasionally a scurfy eruption called "mallenders" in the fore leg, and "sallenders" in the hind leg. Youatt.

called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.

The act of scrabbing; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.

To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.